Dimensional International Sustainability Core 1 ETF
$45.73−0.76 (−1.63%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.24%
- Fund size
- $1.2B
- 1Y return
- +15.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.15%
- Holdings
- 2902
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $46.15
- 52W range
The ETF.net DFSI Grade
Score 58 of 100 sits in the B band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.BScore 56Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 52Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 53Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 85Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 61Category rank
Our read on DFSI
BDimensional's take on international ESG: a roughly 2,900-stock sweep of developed markets outside the US, with sustainability screens and value and profitability tilts running through one integrated process.
The ETF seeks long-term capital appreciation. It uses an integrated investment approach to build a broadly diversified portfolio of non-U.S. developed-market companies while incorporating sustainability considerations.
Why people hold it
- Breadth over bets: roughly 2,900 developed-market stocks outside the US, spreading exposure widely rather than concentrating it in a few large names.
- The sustainability screen and the profitability and value tilts run through one integrated approach, not a screen bolted onto a finished portfolio.
- The portfolio does what the label says: non-US developed markets, sustainability screens, value and profitability tilts. One of the more faithful implementations in its peer group.
- A multi-billion-dollar fund that distributes quarterly, measured against the MSCI World ex USA IMI Index.
Worth knowing
- At 0.24% it runs just above the peer-group median, and cheaper index-built rivals exist: VSGX at 0.10%, DMXF at 0.12%.
- "Sustainability considerations" is Dimensional's own definition, not an industry standard, so the screens differ from ESG-index rivals. The prospectus spells out the criteria.
- It launched in 2022, a short record for a long-horizon strategy, and it trades at moderate volume rather than heavy.
DFSI Holdings
- Stocks
- 2,902
- 10%
- ASML
Sectors
- Financials25.3%
- Industrials21.0%
- Technology10.2%
- Consumer Discr.9.9%
- Health Care8.7%
- Materials7.7%
- Cons. Staples5.4%
- Communication5.1%
- Utilities2.9%
- Energy1.9%
- Real Estate1.8%
Geography
- Japan21.66%
- United Kingdom11.40%
- Canada10.97%
- Switzerland8.74%
- Germany7.37%
- France6.97%
- Netherlands6.37%
- Australia4.69%
- 21.82%
Developed 98% · Emerging 2%
DFSI Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | DFSI |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +10.0% |
| 1 month | −1.9% |
| 3 months | +2.4% |
| 1 year | +15.5% |
| 3 years | +19.4% |
| 5 years | — |
| 10 years | — |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | DFSI |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +10.0% | |
| 2025 | +33.6% | |
| 2024 | +5.0% | |
| 2023 | +17.8% | |
| 2022 | +12.0% |
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DFSI Dividends
- 2.15%
- $1.00
- $0.53 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 2026 | Jun 25, 2026 | $0.53 |
| Mar 24, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 18, 2025 | $0.22 |
| Sep 23, 2025 | Sep 25, 2025 | $0.15 |
| Jun 24, 2025 | Jun 26, 2025 | $0.50 |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Mar 27, 2025 | $0.09 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 19, 2024 | $0.20 |
| Sep 17, 2024 | Sep 19, 2024 | $0.11 |
| Jun 18, 2024 | Jun 20, 2024 | $0.43 |
| Mar 19, 2024 | Mar 22, 2024 | $0.04 |
| Dec 19, 2023 | Dec 22, 2023 | $0.16 |
| Sep 19, 2023 | Sep 22, 2023 | $0.16 |
DFSI Risk
- 12.9%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 1.06
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −12.8%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 0.97
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
DFSI Cost
- The middle half of International ESG & Values Index funds
- Median 0.26%
8 of the 18 International ESG & Values Index funds charge less.